“Your father was dirty. He was as dirty as they come. Nothing big, just penny-ante stuff. You know, free meals. A place to coop. For a while, he was a bag man for a pad in the South Bronx. The normal stuff. He took home $100, $150 a week. That's all. But hell, what a cop.”
Nick Nolte - Mike Brennan

“- Verna McLaughlin: What'd your father do?
- Roy Parmenter: Cop.
- Verna McLaughlin: Good cop or bad cop?
- Roy Parmenter: Bad cop... Wouldn't kiss ass. Good father.”
Loretta Devine - Verna McLaughlin
Sir Sidney Poitier - Roy Parmenter

“I want to build something. Make things grow. That takes hard work. A lifetime of it. That's not why a man comes to a pretty woman. After a while I won't be so pretty. But this land will be.”

Rosanna Arquette - Hannah

“- Doris Mann: You said you have a ranch?
- Jack Faulkner: Yeah, out in Malibu.
- Doris Mann: If all ranchers looked like you, there wouldn't be many crops.”
Shirley MacLaine - Doris Mann
Dennis Quaid - Jack Faulkner

“- Elder Son: If I'm not too unworthy, I hope to win a degree in agriculture.
- Liu - Grain Merchant: Degree? Agriculture?
- Wang: That's some kind of paper that will make it rain just enough, but not too much.”
Keye Luke - Elder Son
Olaf Hytten - Liu - Grain Merchant
Paul Muni - Wang